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Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Aerodynamic Properties of Time

You may have visited the blog this morning or in the afternoon and
noticed that something was different. Sultan Knish has belatedly
switched to a new template. If you're having problems with the new
template or have any suggestions to offer, hit the comments section,
which is now easier to get to use and to use.

Time has a way of flying by and this blog, which it seems to me I just
put up last week, is now on its fourth template. The last one, largely
designed by my friend, Lemon Lime Moon,
has lasted a good long time. While I'm not the designer that she is, I
plunged in and for better or worse, you are either reading this on a new
template or wondering why there's a blank grey space where the site
used to be.

They say that the shoemaker's child goes barefoot and the graphic
designer's blog hasn't been updated since 2008. Some of the innovative
state-of-the-art features that this blog now boasts, include functional
search, which hasn't worked since Bing dropped its site search, and
didn't even work then, comments that don't pop up in your face and
marginally functional sidebars.

What comes next? Anything is possible. Even a future update in less than 4 years.

What you are seeing is one of a few photos from Ann Arbor's Beth Israel Congregation
and some of the photos get uglier than this. There has been
astoundingly little media commentary on this, though if a right-wing
group had been harassing a synagogue every Shabbat for a decade, there
would have been four documentaries and eight books out on it by now.

The FEH site dedicated to exposing the protesters is a disturbing look into the mindset of
the twisted mentally ill left. Liberal Jewish groups would like you to
believe that harassment like this comes only from Neo-Nazis, but the Ann
Arbor situation demonstrates that it is at least as likely to come from
their own fellow travelers.

Aimee Smith of the Huron Valley Greens Party amplifies her objections to
Celebrate Israel Day outside the JCC on May 17, 2009. Though not
Muslim, Smith who wears a hijab, scolded the crowd, “Stop pretending
you’re from Arabia. Be proud of your European roots.” At a previous JCC
event she chanted, “Defecating on children’s drawings will not bring
peace.” Smith, who brought her daughter to help shout down the Jewish
community event, was her party’s candidate for Congress.

What exactly is the difference
between this woman and the loons from the Westboro Baptist Church?
Aimee Smith appears to have been wearing the hijab since at least 2003
when she began running for office as a candidate of the Green-Rainbow
Party on a platform of protecting Cambridge from the Patriot Act and
COINTELPRO.

Despite being endorsed by the Mystic Green Rainbow Coalition, the
Palestinian American Congress and Richard Stallman of the Free Software
Foundation, her campaign was sidelined when her campaign manager, Amer Jubran faced deportation for a fake marriage, terrorist ties and assault.

The media studiously ignores people like this or even praises them. You
don't hear the Green Party being classed with Neo-Nazis, even if their
members insist on acting the same way.

Or this woman?

One told him, “Jewish prayers should be disrupted. You pray for
genocide.” A white-haired woman holding a sign denouncing Israel rushed
over to add, “It’s true! It’s true!”

Or this one?

Gloria Harb said she participates because she believes the United
States’ political system is corrupted by Jews intent on furthering
Israel’s agenda before America’s.

“I’m just one member of the group, and I focus on the American public
and breaking the silence,” she said. “I know there are some of us who
hold out hope of reaching some of those people in the synagogue, but not
me.”

Fun fact. Harb means sword in Arabic. There's also this tragic story.

On most Saturdays, congregants and passersby will also see Marcia
Federbush holding signs. Though the smallest in height and the oldest at
75, Federbush brings some noteworthy stature to the group. In 1988 she
was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame for her pioneering
work battling gender discrimination in education. She divorced her
husband before their 32nd anniversary about a year later. Until about a
year ago, her daughter, Laurel, was a mainstay at the Shabbat protests
and staunch defender in local media and blogs.

However, she no longer joins them and is now a member of Beth Israel Congregation herself.

“She had an epiphany, of sorts, I guess,” Herskovitz said. “Laurel’s
gone to the dark side. She quit the vigils, and voted for McCain.”

Then there is this class act. Sol Metz.

His long white hair and frothy, prolonged beard make Metz hard to miss,
and he isn’t hiding from anybody. Somewhat of a throwback from Ann
Arbor’s counter-culture and anti-war movements, Metz often spoke his
mind on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through frequent letters to the
editor submissions to the Ann Arbor News...

Decades later, his own journeys to disputed territories after the second
Intifada solidified his desire to take his ex-hippie wares to a new
cause.

Though he is now a Quaker, Metz—after a long pause—acknowledges that two
of his four children are practicing Jews today and don’t have much
respect for his efforts.

It was right before and during that period of transition through the
divorce that finances became a stiff challenge, he said. He insists that
at Rosemary’s urging, he turned to the local Jewish Federation for help
with clothing and other needs for his family.

He said groups like the Federation are what need to be stopped because
of the money they raise for Israel. He is convinced the majority goes to
military projects and settlements rather than humanitarian causes,
despite his own experience with them.

He’s aware of the hypocrisy, but remains unfazed by it.

“That’s fair to say, but I don’t see a big problem with it,” Metz, 66,
explained. “The U.S. government helps me too, but I don’t have any
problem criticizing them either. I didn’t want the (Federation’s) help
and I didn’t think they [his children] needed it.”

I've seen these types of people locally. They're a mix of elderly
ex-Commies, professional leftist activists and the fourth wave of
college graduates with useless degrees who majored in gender studies and
critical race theory. Many of them are mentally ill. Most of them are
filled with hate.

During the Bush years, the media embraced these people and their
rallies. Just like they embraced OWS which attracts the same type of
loons. Except they're not loons. They're mainstream figures on the left.

Going back through the years takes us to Aimee Smith's original
appearance at a 2003 rally. Also there was Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky
seen here embodying the best of 90's douchebag fashion.

“There is a war going on in Iraq and a war going on here,”
Gould-Wartofsky said. “Harvard is a colony that needs to be liberated.”

The pair protested in song, with Gould-Wartofsky rapping “Drop beats, not bombs” to the rhythm of Ogunnaike’s drum."

Many Americans might agree that Harvard is a colony that needs to be
liberated... but from the likes of Gould-Wartofsky. Today
Gould-Wartofsky has improved his fashion sense to the best of 00's
hipster fashion and blogs at the Huffington Post. According to his bio

Michael is an award-winning author from New York City and a MacCracken
Fellow in Sociology at New York University. In addition to The
Huffington Post, his work has appeared in The Nation, Salon, The Harvard
Crimson, Monthly Review, Jewish Currents, and the books Poets Against
the War (Nation Books, 2003) and Making War: English Literature and the
Invasion of Iraq (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). His writing has received
Harvard’s James Gordon Bennett Prize and the New York Times James B.
Reston Award. He has also won recognition for his work as an activist,
photojournalist, violinist and fiddler. He is currently writing a book
about Occupy Wall Street.

...of course he is. And yes The Wart hates Israel. Of course he does.
And so I leave you with these deep thoughts from The Wart of Harvard.

Like the other artists, Gould-Wartofsky focused his readings on the
topic of homelessness “just like you might write a love poem and get a
girl to think of you in a deeper way. You can write a poem about, say,
homelessness, and get people to think about that in a deeper way.”

Similarly you can spend a decade harassing a synagogue to get people to
think about what the hell is wrong with the left in a deeper way.

The Ann Arbor hate group has apparently managed to disgust even one of
its own members so badly that she joined a synagogue and began voting
for McCain. Imagine how much it has "radicalized" the people actually in
the synagogue.

Now that's deep.

BORDERLINES

A post at VDare
makes the correct point that continuing immigration and a shift in the
demographic balance of the country will mean the end of the electability
of the Democratic Party. But VDare's racial focus is also missing an
important component that I discussed in my article, "How the Left Wins Elections by Transforming Nations." I used a similar metaphor, but I pointed out that the transformation isn't a simple racial one, it's a cultural one.

The left is creating splinter demographic groups that favor them. These
groups include the college educated, single women, gay men and other
demos that aren't immigration based. Stopping or reworking immigration
is an important goal, as I discussed in, "Toward a Sustainable Immigration Policy",
but it won't the war. So long as the left can build coalitions of
fragmented groups and use its cultural influences to dramatically
reshape minds, higher education being the most obvious example, then
there is no single solution.

The only serious counter to the demographic deluge facing Republicans:
the Sailer Strategy—which is basically that the GOP should rally to its
white base by appealing to its interests. Central to the Sailer
Strategy: a time-out on immigration to stop the demographic displacement
of whites.

But suppose the GOP takes that racialist approach. It would have to
become a whole other kind of party. There are templates for that kind of
party already in Europe and the United States, whether it's Oswald
Mosley or Charles Coughlin, and it's a party with some serious
socialism. A free enterprise Republican Party already exists. This would
be a party that imposed tariffs, had a ton of a state industries and
targeted social benefits. It would in essence be a racialist Democratic
Party.

The idea that our choices lie between a Republican Party that exists
only to make it easier for China to sell cheap shoddy products at
Wal-Mart and a Republican Party that exists only to maintain a hold on
its gerrymandered white districts where cheap shoddy products are made
by state industries and 40 percent of the population lives on welfare...
is not exactly optimistic.

A New Republican accepts that our world has changed. He sees America
moving from the top-down industrial age of the factory to the bottom-up
communications age of the Internet. He sees a more diverse America, with
more ingredients in the great racial and ethnic melting pot, women with
increasing economic and cultural power, and 4.5 million new
“millennial” voters under age 30 annually.

A New Republican sees a more complex, fast-moving society in which we
are more highly leveraged, our lives are more intricately structured,
and our social institutions are both more sophisticated and more
vulnerable. He sees the promise and peril of globalization. He knows we
must compete and win in a global economy whose overall wealth is
expected to double within the lifetimes of Americans under age 40. A New
Republican understands that the global economic frontier stretching
before us is exactly the kind of opportunity that American excels at
making the most of.

I don't want to be insulting here, but I imagine that the New Republican
reads a lot of Alvin Toffler, has a Twitter account, TED talks on his
favorites, and well... what?

Old, top-down, industrial-age schemes, still popular in Washington,
excel at enforcing discipline and uniformity, but not at achieving
growth or innovation. Assembly lines produce cars, not miraculous cures.
Armies march, they don’t invent the iPhone or eBay.

No, major companies invent iPhones. And the iPhone was invented with
rigid discipline and uniformity by Apple engineers and designers from
Steve Jobs out of plants where rigid discipline is the order of the day
and suicide is common.

Let's not kid ourselves. This isn't a new age because we get Facebook
updates on our iPhones. The factory model still applies. Products are
made in factories and even when they're made in a garage, the garage
eventually becomes a factory. Innovation transforms and then becomes
routine. And we need to win at that routine, not just in the brilliant
engineers who ride ceramic bikes to work, listen to world music and
spent their days listening to Steve Jobs yelling that the shape of the
iPhone was still wrong.

Don't get me wrong. I appreciate the invocation of the distributed
intelligence of the free market and the greater appeal of such arguments
in the era of Wikipedia and Twitter. Those are arguments that we should
be making. But it's also best not to forget that a giant chunk of the
Web 2.0 Utopia floats on Wall Street fraud and many of its participants
contribute time for free because their other needs are subsidized by the
government... one way or another.

Many Americans had hoped President Obama would move the Democratic party
into the future. At times, in style and language, candidate Obama
seemed to augur a new era — one in which government looked more like the
open-source movement and less like the top-down command structure of
the Army.

The Obama administration, however, seems to be incapable of promoting any change that diminishes its own power and importance:

I'm all for the reemergence of a libertarian left, but the web isn't
really free and it's a poor metaphor. For all the romance of the crowd,
the internet is slowly becoming more centralized and regulated.

Obama isn't out of step with the trend, he is in step with the trend.
The internet is more Google than it is open source. The key players in
it don't promote any change that diminish their power and importance. If
you doubt that, how many of you are using an open source browser. Oh
Chrome and Safari piggyback on open source, but that's it. The only
major open source browser, Firefox, has been sinking for a while.

10 years from now the internet as we know it, the one where people can
be anonymous, where all sorts of sites that are out of step with world
speech codes can thrive, and where it seems like the old hacker ethos
still lives, will be much more endangered than it is today. 20 years
from now it will be gone along with the computer and any sense of
control over the system.

A New Republican might tell young, jobless millennial voters, “I think
the best way to grow the economy is bottom-up and organically like
Facebook. My opponent, like most Washington insiders, thinks it is
top-down like an assembly-line or the army. What do you think?”

Young jobless millennial hate both the government and Facebook, but if
they haven't been paying taxes yet, they probably hate Facebook more.
Again, the metaphor is nice, but to young people, both Facebook and the
government are creepy institutions that violate their privacy and try to
pump them dry while restricting their freedom.

This could cost Democrats the most valuable political real estate they
gained in the 2008 election. Without a doubt, the millennial generation
Obama inspired is the most empowered generation of Americans in history.
They have never been told what to do by anybody.

And this is where the tragic misunderstanding concludes.

People who have never been told what to do by anyone want someone to
tell them what to do. There's a reason why fascism follows anarchy.

And the millennial isn't empowered. He or she has less empowerment than
any previous generation. The millennial school is so rigid and
authoritarian that it makes the educational systems of the last 70 years
seem like hippie paradise. The millennial has grown up under a
government that is in more control of his life than that of any American
since the end of slavery.

The millennial has nearly no freedom, but isn't aware of it, because the
word has very little meaning to him. Freedom is an abstract thing that
he doesn't relate to the restrictions imposed on him. The internet is
one of the few places where he has freedom and like all citizens of a
totalitarian state, when given freedom, he lashes out violently against
social norms and grasps for power through makeshift social groups.

The millennial is not the golden hippie child of the open source
movement. The open source movement is just hackers doing what hackers
have always done. Explore and make neat things that are then exploited
by corporations. The millennial lives in the world of the TSA and Zero
Tolerance, he still has the right to be angry, but not much else. Like
most teenagers in the past, he rebels by conforming to the socially
approved rebellion, he believes in easy black and white solutions, and
he still wants someone to take care of him. With the collapse of the
family, that someone is likely to be the government.

All the proposals in the article will probably play well in Silicon
Valley, which has a sizable libertarian contingent, especially among
engineers and a few who made it big by betting on their instincts, but
Silicon Valley is just an outpost of corporate America. And Corp America
loves big government. Many of them don't like Obama, but they are not
fans of bottom up organic solutions or open source systems. They want
someone to be in charge and in control of everything.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO BOMB IRAN, BUT IF WE DO IRAN WILL DESTROY US ALL

Demented leftist Bradley Burston has penned an article so schizophrenic it should be grounds for some kind of diagnosis.

First Burston insists that bombing Iran will usher in armageddon.

Mr. Netanyahu, before you bomb Iran, say goodbye to everyone you know.
Say goodbye to everyone you love. You know you won't be able to protect
all of them from the retaliation that will surely come. Everyone you
know is a target. Everyone you love is in range.

Some of the rockets with high explosive warheads will get through the
missile shield. And even if you and a few of your loved ones are sealed
into the most sophisticated shelter yet devised, not one of you is
immune. When it's over, when you get back to the surface, this will be a
different country

I'm not sure whether that part was written by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or
Bradley Burston, but his thesis is that Iran is horrifyingly dangerous.
Which is clearly why Netanyahu is absolutely crazy for not wanting Iran
to have nuclear weapons.

It won't matter then, all these arguments we have over why you insist on
pursuing this. Whether it was a bluff that went ballistic, or a tragic
thirst for a place in history.

After writing 700 words on how Israel will suffer at the hands of Iran's
Mullahs, Burston then acts as if the decision to do something about
Iran's nuclear program is so wholly and incomprehensibly irrational that
he can't even begin to understand it. Cognitive dissonance, you have
met your match.

THE QATARI LONG GAME

Unlike European soccer officialdom, Al-Jazeera has a long-term strategy.
Indeed, its soccer TV “takeover” is part of a larger trend. Qatar,
where Al-Jazeera is based, beat out the U.S. two years ago in bidding to
host the 2022 World Cup. As a result, the World Cup will be played
during the summer in the desert. As I wrote at the time, the decision to
hold play the world championship in Qatar is perhaps the most appalling
and corrupt in the history of sports.

Recently, the Qatar Investment Authority took control of Paris
Saint-Germain. It has already spent roughly $200 million in transfer
fees for players to strengthen its roster, an ungodly amount in any
league but especially in the relatively low-rent French Ligue 1. And in
Spain, Barcelona agreed to a five-year, 170 million euro (then $225
million) sponsorship deal to wear the Qatar Foundation logo on its
famous blue and red jerseys.

...that's an excerpt from Power Line's Paul Mirengoff
and it's part of some much bigger developments. Qatar is becoming the
new Saudi Arabia. It played a major role in orchestrating the so-called
Arab Spring, in pressuring the West into attacking Libya and is pushing
hard for an upcoming war on Syria.

A Qatari government investment fund on Friday said it had reached a deal
with Spanish company Ferrovial to buy 20 percent of the company that
operates London's Heathrow, Stansted and other British airports.

Qatar was the top sovereign wealth buyer of European property in the
last 12 months, spending 3.5 billion euros ($4.3 billion) on eight deals
including the London Olympic athlete's village and a mall on Paris'
Champs Elysees, data from a research firm showed.

For Qatar, the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG),
that spending during the year to mid-August equals only about six weeks
of revenue from its LNG exports, according to Reuters calculations.

Qatar’s Mohamed bin Hammam has insisted he
will clear his name after FIFA’s ethics committee opened investigation
proceedings against him. The former Asian Football Confederation
president was handed a lifetime ban from football last year after being
found guilty of bribery by a FIFA ethics committee panel during his
campaign for the presidency of the sport’s world governing body.

.LIBERALS ARE HEROES, NAVY SEALS ARE COWARDSMedia Matters' Eric Boehlert called the Navy SEALS
objecting to Obama's leakapalooza, cowards. Clearly the SEALS are
cowards. They don't have the guts to do what Media Matters and its man,
Zero Hussein have done, like sit in a room, watch while Navy SEALS go
into Pakistan and then take credit for it.We all know who the real heroes are. They're the guys manufacturing talking points for six figure salaries at Media Matters.AN UNFORGIVABLE SIN

Muslim groups expressed outrage
on Thursday over plans to hold a wine festival in the Israeli city of
Beer Sheva, which is due to take place next month in a courtyard outside
a building formerly used as a mosque.

The southern branch of the
Islamic Movement in Israel has said the festival constitutes an
“unforgiveable sin” and is “a harsh blow to Muslim sensitivities,”
according to Israeli media reports.

... the Islamic Movement in 48 Palestine is
just the local version of Hamas which is just the local version of the
Muslim Brotherhood, which considers mass murder fine, but a wine
festival in a courtyard outside a building which was once a mosque...
now that's an unforgivable sin.Speaking as a Jew, I'm no religiously offended
by a pork festival in a courtyard next to someplace that once used to
be a synagogue. I am offended by mass murderers. That is an unforgivable
sin.MATTER OVER MIND

Look, take a revolution that
puts the Communists in charge, follow that up with the compulsive
wiping out of the intellectual classes in their millions by Stalin, add
in the massive losses in WWII, and then pile on the slow seepage of
brains to the West during the Cold War.... What have you got left? A
nation of increasingly stupid people whose gene pool is about two inches
deep.

...also add on a system where the only line of
work that rewards ingenuity and innovation is the criminal profession.
Russia has been a totalitarian state for 99 percent of the time. It also
has some of the most lethal, innovative and organized criminals
anywhere. And some of the most passionate dissidents. In Russia, intelligence means that you are
either a vital but unrecognized part of the machinery that keeps
everything from collapsing, one of the dissidents who oppose the system
or one of the criminal classes who feed on everyone. Mostly the odds are
good that you left the country sometime between 1981 and 2011. If you
came back, it was with a second passport from the UK, Canada or Sweden
and you spend as little time in the country as possible. If you're
really smart then you got out in the last few years. If you aren't, then
you're still investing in construction companies that aren't building
anything and hoping your kids don't end up at one of those flash mobs
protesting Putin.America and Europe are full of Russians.
People rarely leave a country in such numbers because the country is a
good place to be. Mass immigration is a warning sign that there's
something wrong with the country. Sometimes it's relatively benign
things,sometimes it's big things. PROBABLY NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT...Pakistan airbase with nuclear weapons comes under sustained attack from Taliban fighters

PROBABLY NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT EITHER

DebbieSchlussel.com
has learned that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at Metro
Detroit Airport are outraged that they are being strongly “encouraged”
to attend an event pushing Islam, Arabism, and special treatment of Arab
Muslim airline passengers down their throats. They say that it’s
implied that if they do not attend Monday’s session run by the
pan-Muslim, openly anti-Israel Arab American National Museum in
Dearbornistan, it will affect their work conditions and chances for
promotions on the job.

ONLY WHEN THE DEBATE IS MODERATED BY A BLACK
LESBIAN IN A WHEELCHAIR WILL THE LEGACY OF AMERICAN RACISM FINALLY BE
LIFTED FROM OUR SHOULDERS

Just as the media had finished congratulating itself
for selecting a woman, CNN’s Candy Crowley, as one of the 2012
presidential debate moderators for the first time in 20 years, there is
now an outcry over the lack of African American representation among the
moderators.

Maybe we can just choose 1,000 moderators who will fully encompass the great mosaic of diversity in this country.ISLAMOPHOBIA STILL THE GREATEST THREAT OF OUR TIME

The murder sparked national interest after
Parvaiz told police that shots were fired by three men who shouted
racial epithets and called the Muslim family "terrorists."

But his story fell apart as investigators questioned him at Morristown
Medical Center, and he admitted to arranging the shooting of his
Pakistan-born wife, according to a court affidavit.

...so this brings down the number
of actual violent religiously-motivated crimes against Muslims down to
what? Probably too small a number to even mention when you consider that the number is small to begin with, includes ridiculously petty incidents and that the splashiest cases, like this, turned out to be false.In the past few years, the local media went
into frenzied cries of Islamophonia over a Muslim boy snatching the
Hijab off a Muslim girl. And we are talking boy here, not even close to
an adult. Media reporting carefully avoided any mention of his religion
even as they screamed hate crime.We also had a drunk Latino man who urinated on
rugs piled outside a mosque, a fight between three men on the subway
which turned out to have no religious component and another drunk with
mental problems who stabbed a Muslim taxi driver. Those were major
"Islamophobia" cases in New York.DUCKS IN A ROW

One of these steps was the introduction
of Avi Dichter, former Shin Bet chief into Israeli PM Netanyahu's
security cabinet. He's replacing outgoing Home Front Defense Minister
Matan Vilna’i, who will leave next week for Beijing to be Israel’s next
ambassador to China.

Dichter used to be a Kadima MK,but resigned his seat and his affiliation with Kadima in order to make the move.

His security credentials are impressive, but there's a deeper connection most non-Israelis aren't aware of.

Israeli
Defense Minister Ehud Barack, PM Benyamin Netanyahu and Avi Dichter all
served together in Israel's elite Army unit, the Sayeret Matkal. In
other words, there's a bond there of blood and fire and of working
together on military operations. The Sayeret Matkal's motto is the same
as Britain's renowned Special Air Service (SAS): 'Who dares, wins.'

And they've proven it time and again.

Dichter's
entry into Netanyahu's special security cabinet strikes me as
assembling an old team together for a mission in enemy territory, which
is exactly what the Sayeret Matkal specializes in.

The military is Israel's core old boys
network. Or it used to be. The associations you make there follow you in
your career. Their generation may be the last generation for whom that
is truly the case, but Netanyahu is bringing as much of the opposition
on board as he can.He knows that a lot of the opposition to a
strike on Iran's nuclear program is not truly ideological, it's
political. To move forward before the election in the United States, he
needs to bring as many of the experienced hands on the other side,
particularly those with a security background, into the process. The real redline is the election. If Obama
wins, then any possibility of a strike will have to go up against
everything that Barry will be able to throw at Israel. That may include
threatening to warn the Saudis and Iranians about any overflights as
they are happening. Even if Romney wins, the advisers will be telling
him the same diplomatic things that they told Bush and Obama, that an
Israeli strike will result in a regional backlash against the United
States. Until the election is wrapped up, Obama isn't
likely to devote too much time to attacking or obstructing Israel. That
means there are a few months in which to move. Right now the sabotage
will be huge, both internal and external. The challenges of this
operation are not just the ones on the battlefield, but the high risk of
internal leaks from lefties, the local versions of Bradley Manning,
like Anat Kamm. It also includes the open question of how far Obama's
closest associates, especially Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett, will push
him to go to stop any attack based on information that the CIA picks up
from its own agents within Israel's political and military structures.
(Yes they exist.)

Even if an operation is launched and succeeds,
Iran's leaders will do their past to save face by inflicting as much
damage on Israel as they can. Their primary vehicles for that will be
the ones operating out of Gaza and Lebanon. Since Hamas has switched its
allegiance, if the Saudis are on board with the strike, then there may
be quiet there at least. But Iran will at least make an effort to lob
something at Israel. It will almost certainly be conventional, but it
will do it to make a point.

Iran is flailing in Syria and that makes it
look weak. The Saudis once invaded Iran and Iran cannot afford to give
Sunni Islamists the impression that it is weak. If Arrow works, with G-d's help, then the
damage may be light, but it is almost certain that there will be some
casualties on the home front. A united domestic government, or the
closest that Bibi can manage, may starve off the left's attempts at
using that damage for political gain.

RELIGION OF MISINFORMATION Some Muslim sites appear to be spreading the false rumor that I run the Religion of Peace site.
While ROP is a great site and I would be happy to claim credit for it, I
am not its webmaster nor do I run it or have any ties to it. But I
would those in the Counterjihad to stop by there from time to time.

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

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Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member